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may be observed. RAWLING and WOLLASTON indicate the colour of the Tapiro as being 

 somewhat lighter than that of the plain-inhabitants; a few times WOLLASTON stated even a 

 nearly yellow skin in the former, but .... he did the sarae for the latter, moreover pointing 

 out that it is very difficult to qualify the colour of the seldom bathing Papuans. WiLLIAMSON 

 writes that the Mafulu are of a dark brown. Of the Pesegem is said that they are "vielleicht 

 etwas heller" than the coast-people [142]; of the Goliath-pigmies [83, 16] is stated that the 

 skin-colour after "much washing" was markedly lighter than that of the plain-inhabitants. 

 For myself I did not see any différence in colour between the Timorini and the Mamberamo- 



tribes and the observations, stated above, 

 are so little convincing, that it seems to 

 me that the différence between the moun- 

 taineers and the plain-inhabitants is not 

 of much importance. I hold myself entitled 

 to draw the conclusion that in the pigmoïd 

 tribes in the interior \ve may certainly 

 not see the centre of the above-mentioned 

 light-coloured éléments, observed every- 

 where in the plains and lower mountains 

 of South New-Guinea. 



HAÏR. 



The frizzled hair appears to be 

 011e of the most constant characteristics 

 of the inhabitants of New-Guinea. And 

 at the same time one of the most trouble- 

 some for the anthropologist, as it con- 

 stitutes the great gap between the fore- 

 said peoples and the surrounding races, 

 Dravidians and Australians included. As 

 for the latter, the kimotrichous hairform 

 is sometimes so tightly curled, that it 

 nearly meets the ulotrichous form [204]. 

 On the other hand it seems that among 

 the Papuans transitions to lank hair are not missing, though I did not find any information 

 on this subject concerning the Dutch territory. NEUHAUSS states [135] for the former 

 German protectorate that transitions to lank hair are not scarce at ail and also HAGEN 

 reports them. NEUHAUSS mentions light-coloured, wavy or smooth hair more in particular for 

 the inhabitants of Wasa, on the slopes of the Sattelberg (Finschharbour-peninsula), which 

 hairform is also seen in the Lae-Womba (Markham-valley). Worth mentioning is further that 

 PaRKINSON [144] reports that in the interior of Bougainville, which he calls the land of the 

 purest Melanesians, he rather often found lank or wavy hair, while he thought the possi- 

 bility of mixture highly improbable. 



Fig. 17. Group of Timorini, Swartvalley. 



